“Do you like eggs?”
She laughed. She looked at me, so I laughed too.
Wolfe scowled. “Confound it, are eggs comical? Do you know how to scramble eggs, Mrs. Valdon?”
“Yes, of course.”
“To use Mr. Goodwin’s favorite locution, one will get you ten that you don’t. I’ll scramble eggs for your breakfast and we’ll see. Tell me forty minutes before you’re ready.”
Her eyes widened. “Forty minutes?”
“Yes. I knew you didn’t know.”
— Nero Wolfe, conversing with Lucy Valdon, in The Mother Hunt, chapter 17
Maybe one of the funniest things ever written. I recall something like after he was satiated with his stupendous 40 minute scrambled eggs and had his first beer he conceded that housewives could perhaps be excused their lack of 40 minute egg-making lore due to their other responsibilities.
Never made them, but I should probably try. Here’s a recipe with two reviews:
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/40/Nero_Wolfes_Scrambled_eggs40529.shtml
Freegards
Thanks for the recipe Ronsomed. Here is the same concept of cooking over simmering water. It probably does make great eggs, I have a pan I could try it in too, so maybe I will one Sunday morning.